Kerala to be a net deficit in fish availability The Hindu Business Line dated 3rd May 2017

CMFRI, Library (2017) Kerala to be a net deficit in fish availability The Hindu Business Line dated 3rd May 2017. The Hindu Business Line.

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Given the widening gap between the demand and supply, Kerala will be a net deficit State in terms of fish availability and needs to rely on arrivals or imports for domestic supply. For daily consumption, on an average of 2000-2500 tonnes of fish is required and the domestic supply caters to only 60 per cent. The remaining has to be sourced or imported from other states or countries. The demand-supply gap will be widened every year, indicating that Kerala will require 50 per cent of fish from other States to meet the demand in 2035, reveals a study on fish trade by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute. Despite a soaring demand, the fish prices in the State registered a fall last year.

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